Re: Educating HP employees on the nettiquette

From: Ken Fairfield (My.Full.Name_at_intel.com)
Date: 02/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 13:58:10 -0800

VAXman- wrote:

[snip]
> Another nuisance in the email world is the inability to locate the carriage
> return key. WTF? Are people are so tired from doing the Willywarez three-
> finger salute umpteen times a day that it's too much effort to depress the
> carriage return every 70-80 characters typed?

     Micro$olth software actively _discourages_ uses of the <CR>,
sigh... In this case, it's hard to blame the users since the
software they run _tells_ them to avoid that key. When I receive
a plain-text e-mail which has been properly formatted with <CR>
by the author, OutHouse asks me if I want to "remove the unnecessary
line breaks?" (or similar; I don't have the exact text in front of
me...).

     It causes me no end of grief that OutHouse and MS Worse,
etc., prevent me from saying where a line ends or how to format
a paragraph. I do my best, but the "casual user" of this stuff
not only doesn't know there's a problem, s/he will think we're
crazy and doing it all wrong: BillWarez told her/him so! As a
result, we get PhilThayers(tm).

        -Ken

P.S. But Brian, you knew this already, right? 

-- 
I don't speak for Intel, Intel doesn't speak for me...
Ken Fairfield
D1C Automation VMS System Support
who:   kenneth dot h dot fairfield
where: intel dot com

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